Some sharing about foreign cooking western food.

20 15 1 month, after my work trip in new Zealand, I started a two-year course in western cooking. The purpose of learning is simple. I want to stay in this country. Two years ago, western cuisine was an immigration major, which was short, flat and fast, and many people used it as a springboard. Moreover, I had a job in a coffee shop before I officially started studying, which was a bit of experience.

What kind of person is suitable for learning western cooking?

Be sure to eat, bitter man. Many people have an illusion before learning western food, and feel that learning western food is a particularly tall thing. A girl in our class dropped out of school after less than a year. She said it was so different from what she had thought. The course of western cooking is not only full of kitchen courses, but also has an amazing amount of tasks in theoretical courses. In the first year, the weekly exam was good. In the second year, nine months is the time, and one * * * has to hand in six papers, each of which is basically more than 10,000 words, and the similarity cannot exceed 10%, which simply exceeds all the requirements of the master's thesis. Besides, I have to do a part-time job in my spare time. First, I have to subsidize the living expenses, but this skilled major can only make rapid progress by practice. Like all jobs, doing what you really like will definitely be better than others.

Admission requirements and language requirements

In New Zealand, most western chefs are specialists, which is equivalent to junior college in China. The admission conditions are relatively relaxed, and many people can get an offer by passing the internal English test in the school. Regarding visas, it would be much easier if people were already in New Zealand when they applied for schools. After paying the tuition fee, the account only needs a living guarantee of $65,438+06,500 to get the visa smoothly. Although the English requirements of western food majors are not high, it is safer to get IELTS 6.5 first for immigration.

Is it easy to find a job abroad? How is the treatment?

At school, I had four part-time jobs. After graduation, I found my current full-time job. Generally speaking, it is relatively easy for this major to find a job abroad. Except for the first job recommended by my friend, I found all the other jobs online. The salary of western chefs is not high. They go out to work part-time in the school, and basically get the lowest hourly salary, 65,438 US dollars +05.75, and international students work up to 20 hours a week. As far as I know, the hourly salary for one or two years after graduation is about $65,438+$08-22 according to personal ability. Chefs with three or five years' working experience are generally more popular, and many can get $25+. Further up, about $35 is the ceiling of the western chef profession. So most capable and experienced chefs will open their own stores.

Different working environments

Although they are all western chefs, their work contents are different because of their different working places. As far as my classmates are concerned, most of them work in cafes, restaurants and hotels, and some work in banquet companies and boats. When I was at school, I tried in cafes, restaurants and hotels, and finally decided that the kitchen in cafes was the best for me. If you work in a coffee shop, you must get up early and arrive at the store at six o'clock. Working in restaurants and hotels often starts at noon, but you can't go home until midnight. The work content in different places is different. In cafes, the required chefs are all versatile, because cafes are relatively small in scale and can basically do everything. After half a year, all tasks can be started easily. Another important feature of cafes is that there are more girls than boys, while there are usually few girls in other types of kitchens.

Over the past three years, I have gradually adapted to being a western-style chef in a foreign country. From the beginning, I have a strong purpose, and now I gradually like this profession. The road ahead is very long. I hope I can slowly move towards the goal of opening a coffee shop facing the sea in spring.